Tagged With: Keep Virginia Beautiful

Come See A Bag's Life at the Fair

October 4th, 2011 in Keep Virginia Beautiful Mil-tek Trex A Bag's Life plastic bag recycling reduce reuse recycle Green

Can you guess how many plastic bags are compressed into approximately a 3 x 3 brick?  If you can, you could win a cool outdoor bench — made from recycled plastic bags — and donated to us by Virginia’s very own Trex Company.  Mil-tek, another Virginia company, baled the bags into the brick so we could bring you this fun contest.

"Plastic Bag Forgiveness Day” Offers Hampton Roads Residents Second Chance to Recycle

June 10th, 2011 in A Bag's Life Keep Virginia Beautiful Hampton Roads Green reduce reuse recycle plastic bags

By Elizabeth Evans — James River Journal (June 6, 2011)

Guilty of throwing your plastic shopping bags out with the trash? Relax. HR Green is offering residents a second chance to do right by the environment when it hosts “Plastic Bag Forgiveness Day,” Saturday, June 25 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Peninsula Town Center in Hampton and Walmart at 7350 Tidewater Drive in Norfolk.

In Virginia, It's a Slam Dunk

May 26th, 2011 in A Bag's Life plastic bag reuse Keep Virginia Beautiful Earth Day 2011

The folks at Keep Virginia Beautiful win our “innovative use of plastic bags in a pinch” award. At the organization’s booth at Richmond’s Earth Day Festival, contestants were invited to step up and shoot a basket, plastic bag style.

“We basically set up a hoop, made a basketball out of plastic bags and asked for $1 donations for three shots,” said KVB’s Dawn Neher. “Winners walked away with a canvas Walmart bag.”

The Bag gives a shout out to Virginia

December 16th, 2010 in recycle reuse Green A Bag's Life Virginia Keep Virginia Beautiful plastic bag blog

The Commonwealth of Virginia is the birthplace of eight U.S. presidents and its storied history dates back more than 400 years. So it was a thrill for me to get such a warm welcome on America Recycles Day 2010.

Our kick-off event was pretty darn great.

Keep Virginia Beautiful (KVB), with Mike Baum at the helm and his trusty intern Dawn Neher right there beside him, organized the official rollout to honor your humble Baggie. The Virginia Retail Federation was right there, too, lending a hand.